"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the
animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel
nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest
lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)

Friday, August 22, 2014

A Republican official in Iowa urged Americans not to compare child
migrants to their own children but to instead consider them dangerous
threats.Tamara Scott, a Republican National Committeewoman and state director of Concerned Women for America, made the comments Thursday on her weekly radio show, reported Right Wing Watch.“When we see these kids, you and I think young kids, we think maybe
12-year-olds, maybe homeschoolers — excuse me, middle-schoolers,” Scott
said.“But we know back in our revolution, we had 12-year-olds
fighting in our revolution, and for many of these kids, depending on
where they’re coming from, they could be coming from other countries and
be highly trained as warriors who will meet up with their group here
and actually rise up against us as Americans,” she continued.Scott, who is also a lobbyist for The Family Leader conservative
group, said enticing children to cross the border into the U.S. violated
biblical principles, because doing so encouraged them to break the law.She didn’t specify any Bible verses that outlined those principles, but Leviticus 19:34
directly contradicts her assertion: “The foreigner residing among you
must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself.”Her guest, Mary Huls, president of the Clear Lake, Texas, Tea Party,
agreed, saying children – who she could not bring herself to describe as
people – were trained as terrorists in their countries of origin.“We do know that Hamas and Hezbollah run several training camps in
Venezuela and other South American countries, and they are training
these young – these youths – beginning as early as 8 or 9 years old
through the MS13 gangs,” Huls said. “They are being trained as warriors,
you’re absolutely right.”..............

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

A Texas gun club named after one of the founders of the Black
Panthers Party marched in Dallas on Wednesday to protest against police
brutality, KTXA-TV reported.Around two dozen members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club carried
rifles and red, black and green flags as they marched through the city’s
south side, sometimes chanting in support of Michael Brown, the
18-year-old man killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on
Aug. 9.“If they don’t get these killer cops and corrupt cops under control,”
a member identifying himself as Commander Drew X was quoted as saying.
“What happened in Ferguson is going to be nationwide.”The club’s leader, Huey Freeman, said Wednesday’s march would
be the first step in a campaign of “civilian patrols” through the area.
The state’s open carry law allows “long gun” owners to display them
unless it is meant “to cause alarm.” “We believe we can police ourselves and bring security to our
community, ridding our community of black-on-black crime, violence,
police terror, etcetera, etcetera,” Freeman told KXAS-TV.Another participant, Priest Brazier, said it took the protests that
followed Brown’s shooting to bring the issue of police violence into the
public arena.“If the protests hadn’t happened, you wouldn’t have the attorney
general, and all these people, the FBI and the federal people looking at
the situation,” said Brazier, a member of the New Black Panther Party.
“They normally would have ignored it.”Huey Newton formed the original Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in 1966. The group instituted a “ten-point program”
for helping the African-American community, which included an end to
police brutality, upgraded housing for Black communities, and free
healthcare for both Black and “oppressed” communities, among other
features. He was shot and killed in August 1989 in Oakland, where his career as an activist began...............

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A Colorado Republican state senator justified the practice of
hydraulic fracturing — commonly known as “fracking” — by saying that the
presence of burnable amounts of methane gas in drinking water is a
perfectly natural phenomenon. In fact, he said, the “Indians” used it
for “warmth in the wintertime” many years ago.According to Right Wing Watch,
state Sen. Randy Baumgardner (R) was speaking to former Navy chaplain
turned conservative activist Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt at the
Western Conservative Summit in Denver.Klingenschmitt recorded the interview for his daily “Pray in Jesus’
Name” show. He asked the Republican what he thought of the government
trying to “pick and choose” and prioritize some forms of energy over
others.“I’ve been doing a lot of the fracking seminars,” said
Baumgardner, “and if people haven’t been, then they really don’t
understand it.”“They talk about methane in the water and this, that, and the
other,” Baumgardner went on, “but if you go back in history and look at
how the Indians traveled, they traveled to the ‘burning waters.’ And
that was methane in the waters and that was for warmth in the
wintertime.”“So a lot of people,” he said, “if they just trace back the history, they’ll know how a lot of this is propaganda.”

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

During an appearance at a Tea Party event in Wyoming, National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent used the derogatory term "Japs" while discussing how he believes America has changed since World War II.Nugent, who is also a spokesman for Outdoor Channel, appeared alongside birther
and former Fox News contributor Maj. Gen. (ret.) Paul Vallely at an
August 2 rally hosted by the Big Horn Basin Tea Party. At the end of the
event, Nugent and Vallely were deputized by the local sheriff.During his remarks Nugent described his belief that the government
has "turned on us" since the United States defeated the "Japs and Nazis"
in World War II, citing his claim of "ranchers being arrested because
of gerbils on their range." The term "Jap" is universally recognized as a
racial slur since its derogatory usage during World War II.

NUGENT: I know I'm speaking your language. I know nothing I've said
surprises you except maybe the insane depth of this self-inflicted curse
of apathy. We have bent over since World War II because we couldn't
believe that good -- the universally celebrated good of America crushed
the universally understood evil of Japs and Nazis. We couldn't believe
that that government that represented us in good over evil could
possibly turn on us. They've turned on us. They've literally turned on
us, ranchers being arrested because of gerbils on their range or some
families arrested because the EPA claims they are building a barn on a
wetland where for 200 years of satellite documentation, no moisture.

During his half-hour presentation, Nugent made other inflammatory comments.Referencing the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers during war, Nugent
claimed that soldiers' "buddies came home in bags because the president
violates his oath on an hourly basis.".................